RANCHI, March 10 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators on Tuesday protested in the Jharkhand Assembly over alleged high-handedness and red tape in the state, accusing the Hemant Soren government of having lost control over the executive, a claim the treasury bench outrightly rejected.

Soon after the House assembled, the BJP legislators entered the Well carrying placards and raised slogans, disrupting the Question Hour for the first time since the budget session started on February 19. While Parliamentary affairs minister Radha Krishna Kishore was replying to the charge from the Leader of the Opposition Babulal Marandi, lone AJSU legislator Nirmal Mahto entered the Well and got into a heated exchange with the treasury bench and ...